ShanRock's Triviology: Portland's Best Quizzery Since 2005!
Trivia Jock ShanRock hosts fun and
unique trivia nights all over town, several times a week. It's only $5 per team to play, and the victorious crew walks away with prizes . . . and perhaps more importantly, glory! Have you tried the rest? Now try the best! Willamette Week's Best of Portland, that is! Also, I am thrilled to have been selected by the people of Portland as their Favorite Trivia Night in the Portland Mercury Reader's Choice Survey many times! In addition, I have been honored as Best Entertainer In North Portland, have won BarFly's Town's Terrific-est TJ several times, and had my La Merde quiz night awarded the Portland Monthly title of Best Bar To Play! Triviology and Portland have been making beautiful trivia together for over 20 years; join me for the next 200!
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Weekly Triviology Games!
Played on paper so you can interact with your new
frenemies...seeking allies and building rivalries!
$5 per team to play; max team size five
East Burn on Sundays at 5
The Waypost on Mondays at 7
The Shaku Bar on Tuesdays at 7
Dots on Wednesdays at 7 *No trivia Xmas Eve or NY Eve!
Bare Bones on Thursdays at 7 *No trivia Xmas Day
East Burn on Thursdays at 7 *No trivia Xmas Day
Special Events!
OSCAR QUIZZERY and Viewing Party 2025 Champions: CONCLABIA!
CLASH OF THE TRIVIA TITANS:
The 20th Anniversary of Triviology!
Sunday, February 23rd
CHAMPIONS: Ska Rules, You Suck!
Titan Teams (14+ wins):
Rocky Horror Muppet Show (most wins of the season!)
Stuckhome Syndrome
Boy Stuff
Ska Rules You Suck
4th Place Ponies
The Wild Barabaras
Perminator 2: Judgement Spray
Studio 54
WILD CARD SEED: Muff Stuff!
This is the Super Bowl of trivia; the Oscars of pub quizzery...there will be one team to rule them all! Everyone is invited to compete in this annual two-tiered Triviology tournament for loads of trophies, prizes, and glory! Even if you have never played trivia before, you are welcome to join in the Olympian Open. After those teams receive prizes, the Olympian champion will be awarded their trophy and become the wild card seed which goes on to compete in the Titan Invitational, along with the winningest squads of the whole trivia season. The biggest prize that the overall Titan champions will receive is a free, private, customized quiz which ShanRock will host in your home, at your work, or for your favorite non-profit organization. Come one, come all! Any inquiries may be sent to shanrockstrivia@gmail.com.
OSCAR QUIZ & VIEWING PARTY 2024!
CHAMPIONS: Bea Arthur's Dick In Vera Wang!
CLASH OF THE TRIVIA TITANS 2024!!!
CHAMPIONS: Boy Stuff!
The Titans of 2024:
Fetaljuice
Boy Stuff
Stuckhome Syndrome
Ska Rules You Suck
Muff Stuff
A Squirrel's Whisper
4th Place Ponies
LAST YEAR'S CLASH OF THE TRIVIA TITANS CHAMPS!!!
Thank you to everyone who came out to join the fun! A good time was had by all...and glory abounded! Here are your 2022 Clash Of The Trivia Titan Champions...
1st place Titans: At Least We Came
2nd place Titans: Planet 9
Olympian Champion/Titan Wild Card Seed: Dave’s Not Here, Man
Favorite Foes: Diamond Dogs
Best Bartenders: East Burn
Favorite Venue: Cruzroom Annex
Hope you have a lovely Pride Month...and have a lovely Pride Life!!
Art by our friend, Mike Bennett!
Online Oscar Trivia 2021 Champs: Bea Arthur's Ding Dong!
The time you've spent cooped up watching movies all year is about to pay off; Oscar quizzery will reward you! This Academy Award season pits Lakeith vs. Kaluuya, Billie Holiday vs. Ma Rainey, Hillbillies vs. Hollywood elites...and nominees from previous years will be included as well. The game will be over in time for you to add a touch of glamour to your own pajama ensemble while you enjoy the red carpet; the Academy Awards begin at 5:00.
Clash of the Trivia Titans 2021 Champs: Midas Touch My Balls
2nd Place Titans: Sober Regrets
Olympian Open Champs: Drunken Regrets
**Thank you to Willamette Week and Business Insider for the recent articles on Triviology's video trivia games!**
DOMination: Fast & Furious Quizzery!
Saturday, June 6th, 7pm
Thanks to everyone who participated in this fun, ridiculous game, and congratulations to all the teams that won prizes! I am proud to say that 100% of the proceeds from this fundraiser went to Don’t Shoot Portland, a very worthy and important organization.
Clash of the Trivia Titans 2020 Champions!!!
1st Place Titan: Son of Sushi (from various venues)
2nd Place Titan: Sigourney Fever (from Zach's Shack)
3rd Place Titan: Shut The Fuck Up, Jeff! (from Lombard Pub)
1st Place Olympian: Darryl's Lesbian Haircut (from Bare Bones)
2nd Place Olympian: A Squirrel's Whisper (from Bare Bones)
Best Shit-Talkers: Nash Bridges (from Speakeasy)
Favorite Foes: Prancine (from Peter's)
Spirit Bunny Award: Sigourney Fever (from Zach's Shack)
Underdog Team: Cobros (from Lombard Pub)
Best Bartender: Michael at Lombard Pub
Favorite Venue: East Burn
Oscar Pub Quiz 2020 Champions: Bea Arthur's Dick in Vera Wang!
The Rick & Morty Trophy from a 2018 theme quiz!
2018 CLASH OF THE TRIVIA TITANS CHAMPIONS!
1st Place Titan: It’s Raining Mennonites (from The Speakeasy)
2nd Place Titan: Interfaith Penis Alliance (from Bare Bones)
3rd Place Titan: TIE between I’m With Stupid (from Peter’s)
& Montavillains (from Bare Bones)
1st Place Olympian: Popeye The Sailor Moon (from The Waypost)
2nd Place Olympian: Darryl’s Lesbian Haircut (from Bare Bones)
Best Bartender: Michael at Lombard Pub! (Shoutout to Sadie at Peter’s for losing the trophy by only one vote!)
Best Venue: Bare Bones! (Shoutout to Marisa, whose awesome bartending is a big part of the Bare Bones love!)
Best Shit Talkers: 4th Place Ponies (from Bare Bones)
Favorite Foes: Montavillains (from Bare Bones)
Underdog Award: Power Bottoms (from The Waypost)
Spirit Bunny Award: Triple Axl Rose (from East Burn - a team of four Kurt Russells! See if you can guess which Kurt is from which film in the picture below!)
OSCAR QUIZ CHAMPIONS: LOOSE STUHLBARGS (a subsidiary of Team Boyfight™)!
Sunday, March 4th, 2018!
September 19th, 2009
We’ve been having such a great time at The Hutch (on Glisan), that the owners have asked me to double the fun by expanding the quizzery to The Hutch on Holgate as well! And since they can’t stand to go one more week without Triviology, the debut quiz will be held THIS Wednesday (Sep. 23) at 8:00! Though our beloved Margaret will be your host for the premier, I am thrilled to have scored Michele, who recently retired her That’s So Gay Trivia Night, as our regular trivia jockey at this venue – she is nothing if not hilarious (though she’s also smart, creative, and adventuresome . . . just so you know). Each week, the 1st place team will be awarded a $50 gift certificate to the bar, and 2nd place will receive $25. By the way, their sister venue, The Hutch, will begin splitting the mighty $100 prize on Wednesdays as well – $75 for the champs, and $25 for the runners-up.
Upcoming Events:
CUBICLE QUIZ – Office Space & The Office Lunar Quiz
Saturday, October 3rd @ 7:00
Saturday, October 10th @ 7:00
$100 cash prize to the winning team of four!
Triviology champions for the week of 9/13/09 – 9/17/09:
Sunday @ 6:00
1800 E. Burnside
JIM’S NOT HERE
Sunday @ 9:00
1204 SE Clay
Monday @ 7:00
714 SE 20th Place
STILL, WHERE DID THE TRIVIA COME FROM?!
Monday @ 8:00
Members of three different teams are pictured below . . . Triviology makes them enemies, but smoking makes them friends! Note the “Keep On Touchin'” team T-shirt of Midas Touch My Balls.
Tuesday @ 7:30
4901 SE Hawthorne
TODD BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Tuesday @ 8:00
9920 NE Cascades Parkway
MULTIPLE SCORGASMS
Wednesday @ 8:00
5701 NE Fremont
PONIES WITH AXES
Wednesday @ 8:00
4606 NE Glisan
WHO DAT NINJA?
Thursday @ 9:00
2025 N. Kilpatrick
Thursday @ 9:00
301 SE Morrison
NEVER GO FULL RETARD
Thanks so much for making beautiful quizzery with me, everybody!
Your trivia jockey,
Shannon Donaldson
ShanRock’s Triviology
(503) 957-7806
“Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.” -Jacob Needleman
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September 15th, 2009
For champion team Neo Maxi Zoom Dweebie (Duckie & Iona, pictured below), their knowledge of John Hughes trivia was matched by the excellence of their costumes at my recent lunar quiz night. Special appearances by Bender, Sam Baker, and The Basket Case.
Change is afoot at Triviology this week, folks. First of all, though tonight’s (9/13) weekly quiz at East Burn will proceed at 6:00, Margaret will be your lovely hostess for the night. But alas to those of you who have been double-dipping by following me to Ladd’s Inn for a second quiz on Sundays – you’ll just have to settle for one dose of trivia, as Ladd’s is cancelled for the night. Also, Kyle will helm myPeter’s quiz this Wednesday. And finally, this week will be the last night that the Wxyz quiz will be held on a Tuesday; on Sunday, September 27th, the new weekly night will premiere, still with Kyle, each week at 8:30.
Are you tired of ruling the trivial roost only at my Triviology venues? Do you feel the need to spread your team’s intimidating trivial prowess across the land? Then here’s your chance to take it to the streets . . . you are cordially invited to join me for a couple of mobile Triviology adventures. This Saturday is the FirstBook trivia bus, which is like a junior varsity version of the Barfly Trivia Bus (which will be held on October 10th). FirstBook is a non-profit organization which provides books to kids; Barfly is an organization which provides booze to adults. I’ll host a round of trivia at each bar stop on each bus – The FirstBook bus will start at The Low Brow Lounge and hit four pubs, and and the Barfly bus will start at a top secret location and proceed to an unspecified number of Portland funnest watering holes. I recommend that you do the FirstBook as a warmup adventure, then ride the legendary Barfly bus for a chance to win $100 cash for your team of four. Let’s ride!
Upcoming Events:
Saturday, September 19th @ 5:30
*Buy tickets at portland_or@firstbook.org
CUBICLE QUIZ – Office Space & The Office Lunar Quiz
Saturday, October 10th
Here are the Triviology champions for the week of 9/6/09 – 9/10/09:
Sunday @ 6:00
1800 E. Burnside
NEVER GO FULL RETARD
Sunday @ 9:00
1204 SE Clay
MENERGY
Monday @ 7:00
714 SE 20th Place
STILL, WHERE DID THE TRIVIA COME FROM?!
Monday @ 8:00
Fellatio Hornblower won second place tonight, and are rochambeauing (fellatiochambeauing?) over who gets the extra gift certificates. Look at Jen – she really wants another free beer!
Tuesday @ 7:30
Tuesday @ 8:00
9920 NE Cascades Parkway
MOOSE BROTHERS & BRAD
Wednesday @ 8:00
5701 NE Fremont
BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE
Wednesday @ 8:00
4606 NE Glisan
FRIENDS OF DEAN MARTINEZ
Thursday @ 9:00
2025 N. Kilpatrick
PIMP STICKS
Thursday @ 9:00
301 SE Morrison
Thanks so much for playing my quizzery, everybody!
Your trivia jockey,
Shannon Donaldson
ShanRock’s Triviology
(503) 957-7806
“Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.” -Jacob Needleman
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